Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world. |
savage principle of the survival of the fittest. |
Shot itself in both feet. |
Soccer's World Cup in Africa will reaffirm our common humanity and prove we all belong to one family, |
Some in our common world consider the questions that I and the rest of our government have raised around the HIV/AIDS issue as akin to grave criminal and genocidal conduct, ... What I hear said repeatedly, stridently, is, 'Don't ask questions.' |
The (energy) sector that you represent is central to global economic and social development and, therefore, has enormous possibilities to contribute to an atmosphere of optimism affecting all countries, especially the developing countries, |
The easiest thing to do is to swear at somebody. We can. But that's the end of the engagement, |
The government continues to function properly and we continue to work as government, |
The government of Zimbabwe is committed to the absence of violence in this country, |
The great minds gathered here today ... have the possibility to peer into ordinarily unimaginable vistas of time and space, to discover what the universe was like, when the first stars and galaxies were forming, |
The instability has gone on for far too long. The levels of poverty and conflict are increasing, and if you add to that a fraudulent election, it has to be avoided, |
The matter rests with all of us gathered here, |
The other thing is where they are suffering just as much, if not worse, than we did under apartheid is the fact that they have no way of saying what they feel or how they perceive what is happening because the independent press has all been suppressed. |
The people have spoken, |
The poor of the world expect an end to violence and war everywhere, |